FIREDANCER TEAM PROPOSES UNCAPPING SOLANA BLOCKS POST-ALPENGLOW

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Jump Crypto's Firedancer team has proposed removing Solana's 60M compute unit (CU) block cap, allowing blocks to scale dynamically with validator hardware performance after the Alpenglow upgrade. The plan would let high-performance validators earn more by fitting more transactions into a block, while lower-tier validators would skip oversized blocks using Alpenglow's skip-vote mechanism. While Solana researchers support the direction, they also flagged risks around centralization and network stability from ultra-advanced validators.